MAX VON SCHILLINGS,
director of the State Opera, Berlin, whose opera, Mona Lisa, will he produced by the Metropolitan Opera Company on March 3. The title role will be sung by Barbara Kemp, a singer new to America, who has won laurels in the part in Germany. (Boedecker photo.)
FRANCO DB GREGORIO,
New York vocal teacher and coach, who will present two artist-pupils, Anna Lodato, soprano, and Pasquale Romano, baritone, assisted by Anna Pinto, Italian harpist, in a recital at Aeolian Hall on Saturday evening, March 10.
HOME FOLKS GREET PAGLIACCI.
Charles Marshall, tenor of the Chicago Civic Opera Company, received a pleasant surprise during the recent Boston engagement of the company, when he found that his mother and brothers from Auburn, Me., had come to hear him in Pagliacci. They had not heard him in opera before. So they went back on the stage and congratulated him. Left to right are the tenor's brother Harold, his mother, and his brother Willard. (Photo by Herbert Stier.)
CLAIR EUGENIA SMITH,
mezzo soprano, who has gone to the West Indies. While in Havana Mme. Smith will be a regular attendant at the opera there. (Campbell Studio photo.)
EDITH MASON,
soprano of the Chicago Civic Opera Company, who scored the greatest successes of her career in the season just finished. Miss Mason, accompanied by her husband, Giorgio Polacco, artistic director of the organization, sailed for Europe, February 21, on the S. S. France. Miss Mason will appear in opera in Italy before returning to this country in the fall, to sing again in Chicago and to fill a long series of concert engagements. (Photo © Keystone View Co., Inc.)
ETHEL LEGINSKA
uses her versatile fingers in another way. At the Silk Show, held recently at the Grand Central Palace, New York, the English pianist proved to be “a feature exhibit” during one afternoon's session. (Old Masters' photo.)
CARL FLESCH,
(right), who returns to America next season after an absence of eight years, is seen here in front of the Concert Hall of Christiania, where Mr. Flesch recently gave four special concerts on four consecutive days, presenting eight different violin concertos. With Mr. Flesch is Dr. Schnee-voigt, the well known conductor.
VERA CURTIS,
a new picture in one of her favorite roles—Nedda, in Pagliacci. Miss Curtis has just returned from a successful Western tour and is at present having a short rest before starting off on another tour through Illinois, Michigan and Pennsylvania, (Photo © by Mishkin.)